Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds...
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Leigh Hunt was a 18th-century English critic, essayist and poet. James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. Read more on Wikipedia →